I actually only skimmed the article (and I haven’t been paying attention to the reporting leading up to this), so thanks for spelling it out for those of us who are details-challenged :)

Totally agree. In today’s market, this would just be dogged for being derivative rather than for being ugly. 

Good point. Others have said that the Aztec came a decade too early (which is also true), but you’re right that it came 5-10 years too late. The 90s were full of brightly-colored fun mobiles (RAV-4, Geo Tracker, Suzuki something or other) for the youths to take to the beach to go windjamming or to the boardwalk to go…

I mean, I know it’s not the point, but most of the cars I’ve owned cost less than a majority of the option packages on that list. Amazing. 

This meme is never not funny

I could be wrong, but I suspect that the manufacturers’ captive finance companies are set up to deal with a bit wider range of credit profiles than the other lenders a typical new car dealer (that also sells used cars) would utilize. A manufacturer wants to be able to sell new cars to a wide range of consumers,…

Another poster ran a search on cars.com of the current new inventory nationwide, and about 40% of the current X5 inventory is RWD. I just checked the GLE and it’s more AWD dominant (around 75%), and the Q7 is only offered with AWD. So a big chunk of the market is AWD, but there is definitely demand for RWD models. 

Ah, nice. That’s a good way to at least get a sense of it...thanks!

I’d be interested to know what % of X5/GLE/etc sales are with AWD. 

I’ve never tried the Countryman, so see how it fits the car seats. I think a lot of how the car accommodates car seats has to do with the design and position of the seats themselves rather than just “inches of rear leg room.”

The GTI is a tight fit for rear-facing car seats. The Regal is going to give you more space in that regard. Also, kids being in boosters results in their feet dangling into the least spacious part of the back seat (the narrow space between the back side of the front seat and the front edge of the back seat). So a back…

This is all true, but if I’m the one buying a car, and I can pick between one that was driven sedately from garage to valet and back home, and one that was run to the redline from every stoplight, which am I going to pick? The first one, every time, especially if the first one has 10-15k fewer miles on it. Same thing…

Good comp that shows how bad this price is.

It just doesn’t make sense. To me, she’s such a good communicator. She has sensible policy, and is able to explain why it’s sensible policy. Not to mention the ability to castrate a rich bully like Bloomie on the debate stage. Why the best democratic candidate since Obama is dead in the water as of Super Tuesday is a…

Hmmm....strangely Kinja hasn’t worked this well on Chrome/iOS in months. They must have fixed it for one browser (it was-near unusable a couple weeks ago) and busted it for another. 

I used Tom to assist with a purchase a couple years ago, and he charged $500. Not sure if his rates have changed since.

I’d love to see 5-100 be the new performance yardstick. I haven’t studied the numbers, but I assume this is where you’d start to see some more meaningful separation between the true performance cars and the pretenders. 

I grew up riding in and driving fords from this era. They were underwhelming, poorly built and felt like they’d fall apart at any moment. Other than a fox body Mustang (which I have no desire for personally but obviously has become pretty hot on the market), I don’t know what 80s ford I’d want to buy at this price. 

Yeah, there are huge swaths of the country (the parts that have made the F-150 the best selling vehicle in the US for how many decades) where if you pull into a gas station in a 1996 BMW 318ti, it’s “oh look at mr. fancy pants here in his bmw”. Even if the people saying it are driving $70,000 Ford or GMC pickups.

Too bad the front is so ugly. The rest of the car looks pretty nice.